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  Cash-transfer programming in emergencies

  Oxfam, 2006

  This manual is intended to support the implementation of cash transfer programmes in emergencies. It is based on the experience of Oxfam GB over five years (2000–2005) in a variety of disaster contexts. It argues that cash transfers may offer the following advantages over food aid:
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  Unjust waters: climate change, flooding and the protection of poor urban communities: experiences from six African cities

  ActionAid International, 2007

  Six years ago, at the UN Millennium Summit, world leaders set a specific target for realising the right to adequate housing and ‘continuous improvement of living conditions’. However, in Africa climate change is already threatening that goal, causing massive rural-urban migration and bringing chronic flooding to the cities.
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  Back to work: how people are recovering their livelihoods 12 months after the tsunami

  Oxfam, 2005

  In light of the fact that it is a year since the devastating Tsunami that hit communities in coastal areas of the Indian Ocean, this report is intended both as a reminder of the disaster and those who died, but also as an indication of progress made in restoring and improving the livelihoods of tsunami-affected people.
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  A mountain to climb: what needs to be done to prevent further deaths following the Pakistan earthquake and to enable survivors to rebuild their lives and livelihoods

  Oxfam, 2005

  This Oxfam briefing note discusses the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan and Kashmir. The authors assess humanitarian responses in the six weeks since the disaster and argue that these have been inadequate and lacking in organisation.The document highlights how the relief operation is now achieving real results, however resources and funding need to be urgently and substantially increased.

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